Colorado Springs, home of Ted Haggard and the beginnings of the Tea Party movement, has gone full-blown Teabagger. And the results?
More than a third of the streetlights in Colorado Springs will go dark Monday (Feb. 1). The police helicopters are for sale on the Internet. The city is dumping firefighting jobs, a vice team, burglary investigators, beat cops — dozens of police and fire positions will go unfilled.
The parks department removed trash cans last week, replacing them with signs urging users to pack out their own litter.
Neighbors are encouraged to bring their own lawn mowers to local green spaces, because parks workers will mow them only once every two weeks. If that. Water cutbacks mean most parks will be dead, brown turf by July; the flower and fertilizer budget is zero. Link
